Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-01-28
RESULTS OF FALSE EDUCATION,
The Tendency to Make Idlers Instead o
workers-GirIs' Notions.

The Tendency to Make Idlers Instead o
workers-GirIs' Notions.
Neither the boys nor the girls taught q
won't say educated in the public schools
want to take hold of actual work for 6
living Very few of the boys are willing
to learn trades, especially if they are kept
at school long enough TO get notions about
being gentlemen Nearly all expect tC
get into some lght occupation, something
respectable" and not requiring them tc
soil their hands or wear workshop ckOth
ing They are willing TO be bOOkkeepers,
or statesmen, or general clerks, y or TO be
taken into banks, a'su many of them havt
an eye on brokers offices in Wall street
and many more on the offices the poll
ticians are always fighting for. But they
don't want to turn to and learn to be car
penters, or blacksmiths, or plumbers, OF
bricklayers, or stonecutterS, or anything
else that means a steady days work will
the hands.
This is partly why New York is swarm
ing to-day with fairly taught young mer
looking for situations as clerks or book.
keepers or as conductors on the street
cars, or as canvasSers of all sorts and un-
able to get them These thousands were
lai " q AiASS NNNNetNANAAt
twenty to thirty years ago, and we art
. producing other thousands, many mors
thousands, to-day TO replace them when
they go As for the girls, does any one
suppose that a public school girl would
think of going out to domestic service? GOOD
house servants can get from SIS to so pei
month, with good food and comfortable
homes, but the public school girl would
har a ~ 6rStrf than taEa aYnylnynanf
of that kind. II actually Obliged TO earn
her living she will become ''saleslady,' -
or learn some light trade, or do copying
or typewriting or telegraphing, neither OF
which perhaps will pay her as well in the
long run; but hire out in family she viii
not under any circumstances.
II her parents are able 10 keep her nj
home this girl is often nuisance and
burden. She does not want TO do any OF
the household work. but she does want tC
be well dressed and TO go out great deal.
The chances are that she wants piano,
too While going 10 school she heard
other girls talk of having pianos, and per.
haps some Of her friends have these in.
struments of torture, and she must alsc
have one So, may be, a piano is hired
father or mother could not possibly buy
one at So or So month, and then the
''parlOrs must be refurnished, the ole
things look so shabby beside the piano,
and a carpet and sor's new furniture are
bought ON the installment plan, which
means double price, and so it goes on till
the hard working father and slave Of 8
mother are AT their wits end to keep the
pot boiling.
do not charge all this TO the public
schools, but they are undoubtedly re-
sponsible for a large part of it, any way.
The plain public schools of thirty years
ago were in the main an excellent institu
ton, but the fancy public schools of to-day
are in some respects positive evil. In
stead Of fitting our youth to earn a
living" they unfit them to a large extent,
and tend TO make idlers in place of work
| ers.-New York Cor. Detroit Free Press.